The Peak in Darien, With Some Other Inquiries Touching Concerns of the Soul and the Body An Octave of Essays

My last little book, _Lectures on the Duties of Women_, was addressed principally to the young of my own sex. The present volume is intended for my contemporaries who are daily...

Let us revert to the points of difference between the two creeds as above enumerated. Is a man necessarily _self-interested_ in doing the will of a Being whom he _loves_ and hop...

It is needless to repeat that the delusive exhortations of some amiable but short--sighted philosophers of the last century to “labor for the good of Humanity in future generati...

These are some of the indirect ways in which mankind must lose beauty and truth and goodness, as it loses faith in God and immortality. But the direct losses inevitably to follo...

Then Dives answered yet more placidly: “I never dream of wishing anything were otherwise than it is. I am frankly satisfied to have done with life. I have had a noble share of i...

All this is not so unmeaning and perverse as it at first appears. There is a reason why our generation--the happiest and, we will hope, perhaps, on the whole, the best the world...

Is it too much to say that in this inordinate opinion of his own powers and merits lies the secret of this man’s Pessimism, of his contempt of other men, of his discontent with...

or those of a still earlier date, who were, as Mr. Darwin says, “arboreal in their habits,” ere yet we had deserved the reproach of having “made ourselves tailless and hairless...

The use of costly things as remedies for disease constitutes a kind of _haute médecine_ necessarily of limited application. With the exception of the great search for the _Aurum...

Another appalling device was that of the renowned English physician, John of Gaddesden, who introduced the practice of treating the small-pox by wrapping up the patient in scarl...

The necessity for this theological training, so far as it concerns the insurance of orthodox doctrine from the acolyte when he becomes a preacher, of course falls to the ground...

Regarding the rhetorical faculties of women, I may first remark that, by a well-known law of acoustics, a female voice will, if equally strong, reach further and be audible more...

There is little to wonder at, after all, in the mournful fact that the religion which as it rose from the heart of Christ was supremely the religion of Divine Love became, as th...

In a majority of deaths, the accompanying physical conditions hide from the spectators whatever psychological phenomena may be taking place. The sun of our poor human life mostl...

Here, then, the argument lies in manageable shape before us. It is true we only see a small portion of humanity, as it has yet been drawn out; but just as mathematicians can det...